Hire Car Drivers' Responsibilities
Authorised hire car (private hire vehicle) drivers must comply with all relevant requirements of the Passenger Transport Regulation 2007. Some of these requirements are:
Hire car drivers must not:
- tout or solicit for passengers or for a hiring
- ply, stand or park the vehicle for hire on any road (all hirings must be pre-booked)
- move more than 3 metres from the hire car in the Sydney Airport precinct, without reasonable excuse, except when loading or unloading luggage
- smoke in the hire car at any time
- eat or drink in the hire car when hired or available for hire
- move the hire car while any door is open
- collect more than the amount notified to the hirer prior to the start of the hire
- falsely advertise that they are authorised hire car drivers
Hire car drivers must:
- ensure their hire car is clean and tidy
- be clean, tidy, properly attired and wear enclosed shoes
- behave with civility and propriety towards intending passengers, passengers, other hire car drivers and authorised officers
- carry out punctually any hiring accepted
- allow assistance animals or animals in training in their vehicle
- give lost property to its owner, your operator or a police station
- hand over driver licence and driver authority card to authorised officer when requested to do so
- tell an authorised officer about details of a hiring when requested to do so within the Airport precinct
You will find further details of your responsibilities if you look at the relevant driver authorisation package on the Ministry of Transport's web site www.transport.nsw.gov.au.
